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[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 22:26:51 O. Sinclair wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 January 2008 14:20:00 D. R. Evans wrote:
> >> O. Sinclair said the following at 01/26/2008 06:11 AM :
> >>> Honestly,
> >>> does anyone get something meaningful out of Strigi?
> >>
> >> I can speak only for myself, but I can't imagine how Aaron Seigo (who
> >> gave the recent KDE4 Keynote speech) could possibly think that strigi is
> >> remotely useful in its current form.
> >>
> >> Drop it and use Kerry/beagle, that's my advice.
> >>
> >> Desktop search seems to be one of those blind spots where there have
> >> been several attempts to get it to work well on Linux, but none of them
> >> has come even close to what's available on Windows, and none of them has
> >> really worked as well as one would like. No doubt it will be licked at
> >> some point in the next couple of years (and it could well be strigi that
> >> emerges as the best application) but it seems to be taking surprisingly
> >> long to get it right.
> >
> > I personally like google desktop, very fast and easy to understand,
> > biggest drawback, I cant get it to run in kde4..
>
> So far I have not seen one positive reply on this issue. Time to check
> out Google Desktop then I guess, am not a FOSS religious person.
> Kerry/Beagle I hear is good but heavy on resources?
That has been my impression. With fiesty I removed strigi, and installed 
kerry/beagle. I liked it but it was heavy and when it was indexing it was 
really hard to work efficiently.

Google desktop has been really great for me, -xcept for the problem with kde4 
now :(

Mike